On the Discworld, female vampires do this after transforming into bats or anything else, while males keep their clothes. Salacia complains about the unfairness of this, and suggests it has something to do with innate concepts of sex appeal.

Inverted Magic Pants - Characters always have their clothing destroyed when they transform.

This trope - Situations where a character turns back after transforming (or perhaps "after transforming into a humanoid form" would be more inclusive) is in the nude.

The main differences being that this trope covers a situation (rather than the nature of the clothing itself) where the character is basically stranded, naked making them a plot point, while Magic Pants (and inversions thereof) are an Acceptable Break From Reality (which have different effects on the narrative).

Also in Discworld, Angua (a werewolf) becomes the wrong shape to wear her clothes when she transforms into her wolf form (since her body changes, but nothing else). As with Salacia, she has to either carry clothing with her or stash it somewhere.

Bleach has Yorichi, who can transform into a black cat. When she turns back she's naked, leading to a running gag (starting with The Reveal that she was a shapeshifting woman) where she used this fact to make Ichigo uncomfortable.

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